Health, Risk, and Adversity
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-84545-281-0 (ISBN)
Catherine Panter-Brick is Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. Her research focuses on critical risks to health across key stages of human development. She has edited severa books to bridge research findings into teaching practice, such as Biosocial Perspectives on Children (1998), Hormones, Health, and Behavior (1999), Abandoned Children (2000), and Hunter-Gatherers (2001). She is Senior Editor (Medical Anthropology Section) for Social Science & Medicine.
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Foreword: Framing Risk, Adversity and Health
Alan Goodman
Introduction: Health, Risk, Adversity: A Contextual View from Anthropology
Catherine Panter-Brick and Agustín Fuentes
PART I: HEALTH RISKS AND DISEASES IN TRANSITION
Commentary I: Understanding Health Past and Present
Charlotte Roberts
Chapter 1. Health Consequences of Social and Ecological Adversity Among Indigenous Siberian Populations: Biocultural and Evolutionary Implications
William R Leonard, J Josh Snodgrass and Mark V Sorenson
Chapter 2. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Risk and Context of Emerging Primate-borne Zoonoses
Lisa Jones-Engel and Gregory Engel
Chapter 3. Viral Panic, Vulnerability and the Next Pandemic
Ann Herring
Appendix I: Was the 1918 Pandemic Caused by a Bird Flu Virus?
Appendix II: Applying the Syndemic Approach: Whooping Cough at York
PART II: GENERATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGE
Commentary II: Thinking About Health Through Time and Across Generations
Darna Dufour
Chapter 4. Adaptation, Health and the Temporal Domain of Human Reproductive Physiology
Peter Ellison and Grazyna Jasienska
Chapter 5. Changes in Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Migrant Women: An inter-generation comparison among Bangladeshis in the UK
Alejandra Núñez-de-la-Mora and Gillian R. Bentley
Chapter 6. Family Structure and Child Growth in sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing “hidden risk”
Daniel W. Sellen
Appendix: Poor Growth and Risk of Death
PART III: GENE EVOLUTION, ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH
Commentary III: Explaining Health Inequalities
Bill Dressler
Chapter 7. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Keith Godfrey and Mark Hanson
Chapter 8. Beyond the Gradient: An Integrative Anthropological Perspective on Social Stratification, Stress, and Health
Thomas McDade
Chapter 9. The Slavery Hypothesis: An Evaluation of a Genetic-Deterministic Explanation for Hypertension Prevalence Rate Inequalities
Lorena Madrigal, Mwenza Blell, Ernesto Ruiz and Flory Otarola
Conclusion: Adversity, Risk and Health: A View from Public Health
Martin White
Contributors
Glossary
Index
Reihe/Serie | Studies of the Biosocial Society |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 417 g |
Themenwelt | Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84545-281-X / 184545281X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84545-281-0 / 9781845452810 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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